Charles Polanski 
I made a major goof when looking for the ideal email width. I went from 42-characters wide up to 54 characters and now I’m back all the way down to 37 characters!. Why the switch? I finally tested my emails on my cell phone! Always be testing! I use AWeber to send marketing emails. It’s … Read more
Ah the life of an ontrepreneur (online entrepreneur)! Things won’t always work. You need a backup plan. I was set to convert my blog post into an email of 54 characters wide. I copied my text and went to load my word wrapper site and it wouldn’t load! Back on February 1st, 2024, I revealed … Read more
A new requirement for anyone sending over 5,000 bulk emails per day hit on February 1st, 2024. Google and Yahoo announced the requirement of having DMARC in place back on October 3, 2023. For more details on all this, you can go here: But DMARC stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance. It’s a … Read more
It’s scary how expensive online photos can cost. Just do a search at https://www.gettyimages.com/ . A boring old photo of a desk starts at $175 and there’s still a load of limitations on how you can use the photo. I can’t show it to you here because it’d cost too much! Here’s a link though: … Read more
You should start a blog. It’s a great way to share your thoughts with the world while not being tied down to a social media network and all their confusing and unpredictable actions, rules, policies, and more! Ideally you’d want your own website name with your own website hosting. But there are 2 ways to … Read more
As part of my journey as an online entrepreneur… an “ontrepreneur” (someone thought of that before me)… is to have a website and a website host. Let me describe my nearly 3 decades of website hosting experiences. Over the years I’ve had a few sites. I can’t remember where I hosted my first site called … Read more
As a huge World Cup soccer fan and an American, today’s huge. I get to find out the 2026 World Cup Match schedule today at noon PT! If you didn’t already know, the FIFA World Cup is being hosted by the USA (along with a handful of matches in Canada and Mexico). Since the USA, … Read more
My tracking links just stopped working! What’s happened? The site handling the links is down as well! I’ll get to what happened later…but what the heck is a “tracking link”? In business, especially online marketing, you need to track your results. This has given rise to the “Click Tracking” industry. For things like emails and … Read more
Ever notice how boring most cars are colored? Look out on the roads and notice 99% of cars fall into one of these categories: Check out movies, TV shows, photos, and more from the 1950s to 1980s, and you’ll notice all the wonderful variety of car colors there was. Just take a look at all … Read more
I’ll be writing about my journey throughthe wild world of online marketing. One question recently came up… How narrow should your emails be? How manycharacters wide should your onlinemarketing emails be? I hadn’t thought much about that. Variousemail experts have taught me to beware orlong paragraphs, but there wasn’t muchdiscussion on the width of an … Read more